Horse-collar protector.



No. 876,279. PATENTED JAN. 7, 1908.

J. MILLAR & s. HUMBARD. HORSE COLLAR PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 22, 1907.

UNITE STATES PATENT oriuon.

JOHN MILLAR, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, AND SA M UEL HUMBARD, OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE;

SAID HUMBARD ASSIGNOR OF ONEJIALF OF HIS RIGHT TO SAID MILLAR.

HORSE-COLLAR PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 7, 1908.

Application filed April 22. 1907- Serial No. 369.686-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN hIILLAR and SAMUEL HUMBARD, citizens of the United States, residing, respectively, at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, and at Knoxville, in the county of Knox and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in IIorse-Col lar Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the class of harness, and particularly to a protector adapted to be adjustably carried by a horse-collar to prevent usual wear and injury to the collar by the hames and hame-tugs.

The object of the invention is to provide a sheet-metal protector of such novel and peculiar shape as to fit closely under the roll or rim of a horse-collar without interfering with the hames, and to permit the latter to fit under said roll and upon the protector.

A further object of the invention is to provide such novel and peculiar means for connecting the protector to horse-collars as to form a spring-holder for the protector and to permit it to be slid to various positions on the collar.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a horse-collar protector with spring hooks pivoted or hinged to the protector and adapted to fit the roll of the collar and forming the only connection between the protector and the collar.

This invention is distinguished from horsecollar pads, shields and patches, for the reasons that it performs no such functions, but its object and purpose is to protect the collar at the point of wear of the hame-tugs.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this application: Figure 1 is a front view of the horse-collar and hames showing the application of the invention. Fig. 2'is an edge view. Fig. 3 is a detail elevation of the protector with one of its hooks removed. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a modification. Fig. 5 is an elevation of a further modification.

The same reference numerals denote the same parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

The horse-collar 1, may be of any of the well known forms having a rim or roll 1 and the hames 2, may be of any of the usual types, having hame-tugs The protector, preferably, is composed of a thin sheet metal plate 4, capable of being bent or shaped to conform to the shape of the particular collar to which it is to be applied. The inner edge of the plate is cut or stamped into shape or curve to fit into the crease or fold between the collar and its roll. This edge of the plate has notches 5, and adjacent said edge there is a slot 6 opposite each of said notches, leaving a strip or bar between each notch and slot forming pintles 7. The plate flares or widens from its notched edge to its outer edge and is concaved sufficient to conform to the convexity of a collar.

The means for connecting tector to a collar, consists of two or more thin metal spring-hooks 8. One of which is hinged or pivoted on each of the pintles 7, so that the plate is loosely hung from the hooks, and the latter are sprung over the roll of the collar where they may be adjusted or slid as desired to place the protector in position under the hame-tug.

Referring to the modification shown in Fig. +l, the inner edge of the plate 9, has an up-turned flange 10, adapted to fit into the crease or fold between the collar and its roll and behind the latter. At the juncture of the flange and the plate, is a pair of slots 11, for the spring-hooks.

In the modification shown in Fig. 5, the plate 12, is without a illange, the notches are omitted, and the slots 13 are made close to the inner edge of the plate to form hinge-bars 14.

It will be seen that the spring-hooks constitute the only means of connecting the protector to a collar, that by reason of the spring tension of the hooks the protector is readily connected and disconnected with a the plate or procollar, and that the hooks permit ex)edi number of hooks and manner of hinging them I may be varie d without departing from the ters Patent is A horse collar protector comprising a thin sheet of flexible metal having an inner edge provided With pintles and curved to fit between the collar and the collar-roll, and

spring-hooks ably connecti carried by the pintles and slidng' the said plate to the collar.

In Witness whereof We hereunto set our hands in the presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN MILLAR. SAMUEL HUMBARD.

\Vitnesses for hlillar:

M. M. BEvA, J. S. WARD.

Witnesses for Hunibardz J. L. (JOKER, E. ELLIsoN. 

